THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Obama led 'Trump-Russia
collusion' smear job

Wednesday, April
3, 2019

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Michael F.
Haverluck (OneNewsNow.com)

Former United States
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper attested in a CNN interview
that President Barack Obama is responsible for spearheading the
Russia-collusion probe against President Donald Trump.

While attempting to defend his former boss’s legacy against
Trump’s assertion that the Obama administration took no action about Russian
meddling in U.S. elections, he actually affirmed that the former president is
responsible for the allegations made to spur the Trump-Russia collusion
investigation.

What
convinced you of a 'Deep State' conspiracy to undermine Donald Trump?

The accusations have embroiled and plagued the president while
tying up investigators in Washington for two years – claims that U.S. Special
Counsel Robert Mueller recently debunked to the chagrin of Democrats and the
anti-Trump media.

Clapper explained that Obama’s effort to smear Trump led an
enduring effort in Washington to tie the president to the Russians.

“If it weren’t for President Obama, we might not have done the
intelligence community assessment that we did that set off a whole sequence of
events which are still unfolding today – notably, special counsel Mueller’s
investigation,” Clapper told CNN, according to WND.

It was indicated that the ongoing probe was set up to prove
meddling and collusion – rather than investigate whether or not such unscrupulous
activity was actually taking place.

"The intelligence community assessment to which [Clapper]
refers addressed Russia meddling in general, [and] that was the special
counsel’s task, as well,” WND noted. “But it’s clear that Obama officials –
including Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan – were promoting the
Trump-collusion allegation … and that claim was the focus of Mueller’s
probe.”

Clapper’s response regarding Obama and the probe was questioned
by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the interview.

“The 2017 assessment that the president says he now agrees with
– that was done while you and then NCI Director John Brennan were still in
office,” Cooper said, setting up his inquiry. “So, how can we reconcile the
president attacking you, but apparently, after a very long time finally,
allegedly … saying he agrees with the product of the intelligence community
that you, yourself oversaw?”

Clapper then directed the attention away from himself onto
Trump, before trying to shed Obama in a positive light.

“Yes, well, this is – yes, as we’ve come to know the President –
he is not a stalwart for a consistency or coherence, so it’s very hard to
explain that,” Clapper responded. “One point I’d like to make, Anderson – that
I don’t think has come up very much before, and I’m alluding now to the
president’s criticism of President Obama for all that he did or didn’t do
before he left office with respect to the Russian meddling – if it weren’t for
President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment
that we did that set off a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding
today … notably, special counsel Mueller’s investigation.”

He then credited Obama for masterminding the probe orchestrated
to incriminate Trump.

“President Obama is responsible for that, and it was he who
tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place,”
Clapper continued. “I think it’s an important point when it comes to critiquing
President Obama.”

As a byproduct of the false Russia collusion allegations against
Trump, key Democrats were found to be conspiring to undermine Trump’s run for
the White House in 2016.

“While Mueller concluded the Trump campaign did not collude
with Russia, the House Intelligence Committee and investigative reporters have
turned up evidence of collusion between the Obama administration, Hillary
Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to prevent Trump from winning,”
WND pointed out. “A key line of inquiry is the story surrounding the dossier of
unverified, anti-Trump ‘dirt’ funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC. The
document – the House intel panel found – was used by the Obama Justice
Department and FBI to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.”

An inquiry into the exact origins of the collusion allegation
was launched by Sen. Lindey Graham (R-S.C.). in the wake of investigative
reporters John Solomon and Sara Carter’s groundbreaking coverage about the
Obama administration’s central role in pushing the collusion narrative.

Holding Trump and friends accountable

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders urged
Congress to call officials of the Obama administration – including Clapper,
former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan – to
testify.

After defending his commentary as a CNN national security
analyst, Clapper addressed Sanders’ remarks, insisting that she was
misrepresenting the matter.

“Clapper … responded by suggesting that Sanders was
‘confusing’ collusion with Russian interference, telling Anderson Cooper that
he was ’tasked’ by then-President Obama to put together the reports on Russian
interference in the 2016 election,” Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn explained. “He
insisted that he had been ‘consistent’ shortly following Trump’s inauguration
that ‘we didn’t have enough evidence’ at the time and that the Mueller probe
would ‘resolve it once and for all.’”

With the Mueller phase of the investigation concluding Trump’s
innocence regarding the Russian collusion allegations, the floodgates to find
those responsible for the attack on the president’s loyalty – to keep him from
the White House and then to impeach him – are now wide open.

Trump is at the forefront of spurring efforts to expose Obama
and his officials for framing him for collusion charges.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: Another pro-

bankster, right-wing Democrat enters the 2020 race

Her
embrace of Hillary Clinton, the candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, and
Obama, who presided over the largest transfer of wealth in history from the
bottom to the top, demonstrate clearly her adherence to the right-wing policies
of the Democrats that are responsible for the accelerated deepening of economic
and social inequality, paving the way for the Trump presidency.

She has also received substantial

contributions from major Wall
Street firms,

including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan

Chase &
Company.

During her 2012
reelection campaign, she was the third highest recipient of
donations from the securities and investment sector, reportedly
taking in more than $1.84 million.

Kirsten Gillibrand: ‘President Trump is Tearing Apart the Moral Fabric of This Country’

“President Trump is tearing the apart the moral fabric of this country,” Gillibrand said in one Tweet. “He demonizes the vulnerable and punches down. He puts his name in bold on every building. He does this because he wants us to believe he’s strong. He’s not. Our president is a coward.”

In another Tweet that includes a video clip from “Hardball,” Gillibrand says: “President Trump has twisted the issue of immigration because he’s a coward, and he’s afraid of refugees. Let’s untwist it: We need to secure our border, but we also need real immigration reform, path to citizenship, and to treat asylum seekers with humanity instead of hate.”

“…But the second half are people who want to come here because they are seeking asylum,” she told Chris Matthews in the clip. “That is where Trump has gone off the rails. That’s where he has been inhumane. And, frankly, he’s been frightened. Frightened of any immigrants and refugees. He’s been a coward.”

Following last year’s disaster of a speaking tour, former president Bill Clinton and failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton are again planning to tour the nation — this time featuring Hollywood star power in some locations.

“Hillary Clinton and I are hitting the road with some friends and we hope to see you!” Bill Clinton said Wednesday.

The Clintons will speak with actors Ben Stiller and Tony Goldwyn and former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in different cities.

Comedian Jordan Klepper will also join the Democrat power couple in Washington, D.C.

Bill and Hillary hit the road last year for a tour that failed to generate enough public interest to even fill the seats in the venues they chose.

As Breitbart News reported in November, their tour had trouble filling seats from the beginning. Hillary Clinton also had a trademark coughing fit during the first event.

In December, ticket prices fell so much that some locations were selling them for $7.

Since losing the election to President Donald Trump in 2016, Hillary Clinton has frequently attacked him, accusing him of being a racist and being beholden to Russia.

“He does have a strong streak of racism that goes back to his early years,” Clinton said last year.

“I include his anti-immigrant tirades because he characterizes immigrants in very racially derogatory ways, but he was Islamophobic, he was anti-women, he really had the whole package of bigotry that he was putting on offer to those who were intrigued and attracted to him.”

Is it a signal that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason why she lost the 2016 election.

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“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service”into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a politicalmachine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially ofa seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for theClintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.

*

The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”

*

"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy - AMERICANTHINKER.com

Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY

Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY

Following last year’s disaster of a speaking tour, former president Bill Clinton and failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton are again planning to tour the nation — this time featuring Hollywood star power in some locations.

“Hillary Clinton and I are hitting the road with some friends and we hope to see you!” Bill Clinton said Wednesday.

The Clintons will speak with actors Ben Stiller and Tony Goldwyn and former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in different cities.

Comedian Jordan Klepper will also join the Democrat power couple in Washington, D.C.

Bill and Hillary hit the road last year for a tour that failed to generate enough public interest to even fill the seats in the venues they chose.

As Breitbart News reported in November, their tour had trouble filling seats from the beginning. Hillary Clinton also had a trademark coughing fit during the first event.

In December, ticket prices fell so much that some locations were selling them for $7.

Since losing the election to President Donald Trump in 2016, Hillary Clinton has frequently attacked him, accusing him of being a racist and being beholden to Russia.

“He does have a strong streak of racism that goes back to his early years,” Clinton said last year.

“I include his anti-immigrant tirades because he characterizes immigrants in very racially derogatory ways, but he was Islamophobic, he was anti-women, he really had the whole package of bigotry that he was putting on offer to those who were intrigued and attracted to him.”

Is it a signal
that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the
world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more
funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get
money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's
pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason
why she lost the 2016 election.

*

“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public
service”
into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the
top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political
machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of
a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the
Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.

*

The basic components
of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500
audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly
philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”

*

"But what the
Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the
American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it
to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal.
Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to
every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy -
AMERICANTHINKER.com

Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved
with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in
donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty
percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the
financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY

Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton
Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She
would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from
under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY

Amid auto layoffs and warnings of manufacturing “bloodbath”

IMF chief points to global growth deceleration

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Largarde, warned on Tuesday that the prospects for the global economy were “precarious.”

In a speech delivered ahead of the IMF’s annual spring meeting next week, where it will issue its world economic outlook, Lagarde indicated that the forecast for global growth, already downgraded in January, would be further lowered because the world economy had “lost further momentum” and slid into a “synchronised deceleration.”

“Only two years ago, 75 percent of the global economy experienced an upswing,” she said. “For this year, we expected 70 percent of the global economy to experience a slowdown in growth.”

She added that while the IMF did not expect a recession in the “near term,” the global economy was “unsettled” and in a “delicate moment,” and that any upturn in growth would be “precarious.”

Her remarks underscored the extent to which the global economy and financial markets have become ever more dependent on the inflow of ultra-cheap money from the world’s central banks, which have started to reverse their return to a more “normal” policy.

The US Federal Reserve has made clear it does not expect to raise interest rates this year, after indicating at least two rises for 2019 as recently as last December, and the European Central Bank announced some limited monetary stimulus at its most recent meeting.

Lagarde warned that “should there be a sharper-than-expected tightening of financial conditions, it could create serious challenges for many governments and companies in terms of refinancing and debt service, which could amplify exchange-rate movements and financial market corrections.”

The low interest rate regime of the past decade, which the central banks have been incapable of ending, had created problems in meeting any significant downturn or recession.

“The reality is that many economies are not resilient enough. High public debt and low interest rates have left limited room to act when the next downturn comes, which inevitably it will,” Lagarde said.

The latest report from the World Trade Organisation also points to a significant slowdown in global growth, reflected in its predictions for trade.

Releasing the forecast on Tuesday, the director-general of the WTO, Roberto Azevêdo, said that in 2017 trade growth stood at 4.6 percent. “At that point we were somewhat optimistic there was renewed dynamism and momentum in global trade. Since then, leading indicators have shown momentum weakening—particularly towards the end of last year.”

Trade had “underperformed” last year, with growth of 3 per cent, and “we expected even more modest growth in 2019, at just 2.6 percent.”

Azevêdo said there were a number of elements involved, but “rising trade tensions” were the major factor. “Trade simply cannot play its full role in driving GDP growth when levels of uncertainty are so high. Greater uncertainty means lower investment and consumption. Investment, in particular, has a pronounced impact on trade.”

The slowing of the world economy is most pronounced in Europe, where manufacturing indexes, regarded as a reliable indicator of the state of the economy as a whole, dropped sharply in March. A widely followed purchasing managers’ index for the euro zone fell to 47.5 for March, down from 49.3 in February, with a level below 50 indicating a contraction. It was the biggest drop in nearly six years.

The most significant downturn is in Germany, the biggest economy in the euro zone, where the purchasing managers’ index for March dropped to its lowest point in seven years.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Germany’s Mechanical Engineering Industry Association halved its forecast for growth this year to 1 percent, pointing to the trade conflict between the US and China as the reason. The Journal cited the head of an Italian auto supplier, who warned of a “bloodbath for manufacturers in Europe this year.”

The bloodbath has in fact already begun. Mass layoffs are underway at European and US auto plants, indicating that the ruling classes intend to impose the full burden of the downturn in the global economy on the backs of the working class.

The official position in the US is that growth is on track to record levels of between two and three percent. But movements in financial markets are pointing to a significant downturn, if not recession. One of the most significant is the “inversion” of the yield curve, where the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds falls below the rates on short-term debt. This is regarded as an indicator of recession, as investors seek a safe haven, putting their money in long-term bonds, driving up the price and lowering the yield.

Another indication is the call last week by White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow for the Fed to cut its interest rate by 0.5 percentage points.

The Fed responded to the financial market turbulence last December by shelving its planned interest rate rises for this year and winding up its planned reduction of the financial assets it purchased during quantitative easing, leaving the Fed holding $3.5 trillion worth of bonds compared to about $800 billion before the 2008 financial crisis.

But the Trump administration views these actions as insufficient. In calling for the rate cut, Kudlow said it had to be undertaken as a “precaution.”

“I don’t want any threats to the recovery,” he said. “I’m aware of the inversion of the yield curve and I’m aware of the rest of the world’s weak economy.”

It speaks volumes about the underlying situation in the US and global economy that the present Fed rate of between 2.25 percent and 2.5 percent—one of the lowest levels in history—is regarded as a threat to growth. This is indicative of the extent to which the entire economy has become dependent on the inflow of cheap money.

This money has not been used to finance an expansion in production. Rather, it has been deployed in the very kinds of financial speculation and parasitism that led to the financial crisis more than a decade ago, creating the conditions for another meltdown.

Evidence of such speculation was revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week with Jonathon Levine, co-managing partner of Bain Capital, a global private equity group involved in takeovers. Bain said that “increasingly aggressive” projected benefits from mergers and acquisitions were masking the real scale of borrowing and heightening the risk of a crash in this sector.

Bain indicated that “people were using complex jargon to exaggerate cost savings” for companies involved in mergers, “leading to soaring debt levels based on over-inflated projections.”

As the layoffs already taking place make clear, the outcome of this parasitic, and in some cases criminal, activity will be intensified attacks on the jobs and social conditions of the working class.

Economic Warning Signal: Services Sector Slowed in March

Economists expected that the U.S. service sector would slow in March after a faster than expected expansion in February. But they underestimated the extent of the slowdown.

The Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index fell to 56.1 in March from 59.7 in February. Economists had expected a gentler decline to 58.

This kind of volatility is not typical for the services sector. The business activity component of the index declined sharply, as did the new orders component. Nonetheless, both remain above 50, indicating that expansion continues.

The employment component went in the other direction. That could be an indicator that Friday’s jobs report for March could come in at a healthy level following the shockingly low 20,000 new jobs created in February.

Taken as a whole, the ISM non-manfacturing survey provides more evidence that the economy grew sluggishly in the first quarter and that the slowdown persisted even as the stock market recovered. The March reading was the lowest since August 2017.

“The non-manufacturing sector’s growth cooled off in March after strong growth in February,” said Anthony Nieves, the chief of the survey. “Respondents remain mostly optimistic about overall business conditions and the economy. ”

Sixteen subsectors of the services sector grew in March. Two–educational services and retail trade–contracted. Many of those surveyed cited tightness of the labor market as a concern.